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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






2. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






3. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






4. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






5. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






6. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






7. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






8. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






9. A poem that tells a story.






10. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






11. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






12. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






13. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






14. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






15. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






16. The selection of words in a literary work.






17. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






18. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






19. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






20. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






21. A strong pause within a line.






22. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






23. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






24. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






25. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






26. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






27. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






28. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






29. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






30. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






31. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






32. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






33. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






34. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






35. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






36. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






37. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






38. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






39. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






40. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






41. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






42. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






43. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






44. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






45. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






46. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






47. The person who 'tells' the story.






48. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






49. A short saying with a moral.






50. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.